(SOLVED) Re: Gnome control center crashes

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi Volker :)

On Mon, 2019-09-30 at 17:07 +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> Am Montag, den 30.09.2019, 14:02 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users:
> > for Gnome more relevant than anything else in either .local or
> > .config might be .config/dconf/user.
> 
> I've moved that away, and now gnome-control-center works again. The
> "user" file is automatically regenerated. Many thanks! :-)

consider to move it back, try to find the responsible schema and just
reset this schema, since dconf contains the config for many apps.

> > Take a look if dconf contains a schema, that seems to be relevant by
> > running 
> > 
> >   gsettings list-schemas | grep gnome
> > 
> > If there should be a schema that might be relevant backup
> > .config/dconf/user and after that run
> > 
> >   gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.RELEVANT.SCHEMA

Note, I don't use Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon or any desktop environment at
all, but some apps I'm using and several apps I installed for comparison
are configured by dconf. For your GNOME install it might be a lot more
apps.

$ gsettings list-schemas | cut -d. -f3 | cut -d- -f1 | sort -u

Atril
Charmap
Cheese
ColorHelper
Demo
Evince
Evolution
FileRoller
GHex
GWeather
GjsTest
Marco
SessionManager
Settings
SettingsDaemon
Terminal
Tracker
accessibility
antler
applications
apps
background
caja
calc
calculator
caribou
compact
control
crypto
debug
desklets
desktop
dictionary
disk
drivemount
editor
engrampa
eom
evolution
file
font
gedit
gnome
icon
interface
invalid
keybindings
keyboard
libgnomekbd
list
lockdown
login
media
meld
mousepad
mucharmap
muffin
nautilus
nm
online
panel
peripherals
plugins
pluma
preferences
recorder
screenshot
seahorse
search
session
settings
sidebar
sound
sounds
stickynotes
system
terminal
theme
thumbnail
thumbnailers
typing
virt
window
yelp

Regards,
Ralf